Legal Question in Business Law in Florida

Infridgment?

I would like to start selling tshirts with funny ''bumber sticker like'' sayings and graphics on them, but in spanish (here in the US). To what degree can I copy other sayings and graphics I have seen on tshirts here in the US with this similar concept? How about sayings and graphics I have seen on tshirts aborad?


Asked on 1/26/09, 5:18 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Brent Rose The Orsini & Rose Law Firm

Re: Infridgment?

If you simply "steal" other people's bumper sticker statements, you'd be violating their copyright, even if you translate them. Just about every country subscribes to a treaty of some sort (usually either the Berne Convention or the Universal Copyright Convention) which makes that country's copyrights enforceable in the U.S.

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Answered on 1/26/09, 8:38 am


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